[NTLUG:Discuss] half way off topic - SGI server and Linux client graphical library problem

[Val Harris]

Fred James wrote:
> Server OS: IRIX 6.4
> Client OS: RH Linux 7.1
> Situation [Note: IP addresses masked as x.x.x.x]:
> (1) X server is working (i.e., xclock, winterm, and toolchest, all
> work), although I get some complaints about certain colors and fonts.
> (2) Attempt to run gr_osview (dynamic graphical view of resource usage
> on the server) returns the following 2 error lines:
>     (a) dgl error (protocol): remote machine not DGL capable - x.x.x.x:0.0
>     (b) dgl error (default init): default dglopen(x.x.x.x:0.0,4)
> returned -13
> (3) SGI's answer is that "The DGL protocol that supports the IRIS GL
> remote rendering is proprietary to SGI and the only interpreter for it
> (dgld) runs only on SGI workstations. This is why you are seeing this
> error when trying to display gr_osview to a non-SGI system."  [Note that
> the client is considered the "remote machine" in this case]
> The question, on the off change that someone may have had some
> experience with this:  any suggestions?
> Thank you in advance for any constructive thoughts or suggestions.
> My apologies to anyone who may be offended by this somewhat "off topic"
> posting.
> 
> -- find . -type f | xargs file | grep -i text | cut -f1 -d: | xargs grep
> "..."
> 
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It's been a couple of years since I worked with Irix, but when I had
this problem, I gave up on it and only displayed X clients back to my
Linux Xserver.  In more recent times I've heard about OpenGL being
ported to Linux, but I'm not familiar with which protocols are included
in the Linux port of OpenGL.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, are there any OpenGL gurus out there?

-- 
Val W. Harris                          val.harris at attbi.com

"If you have tried to do something but couldn't, you are far
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